Buckminister Fuller and co-cartographer Shoji Sadao, designed an alternative projection map, called the Dymaxion map. Since then, several other projections have been proposed that evolve the idea of map projections in a similar manner. Favorites are:

On the video side: Nameless, ikonos.tv, Electric Arts Intermix, Video DataBank. Or, YouTube and or bittorrent on the pirate side. And rhizome.net, research catalogue, figure/ground on the public archive side.